Western Massachusetts

Security comes out, they found nothing, no footprints, no people, but the security dog was going crazy.

growling and yapping and pulling and trying to get after something in the dark she said they were all so unsettled by it that they just packed it up and went to bed but she said i fully believe this was a non-human entity because nobody and i mean nobody could have gotten past that security checkpoint without us knowing all of that said she said that this region is absolutely gorgeous it's an old university town and if you ever find yourself in the area you should definitely check this place out summertime about 2 30 in the morning when a nurse named lindsey's working the night shift and she gets a frantic call from her husband she answers she's like what's going on he's like please tell me you're home please tell me you're outside the house she says i'm not at home i'm not outside the house i'm at work you know this he said then who is crouched on all fours outside the house calling my name he says whoa whoa back up what are you talking about he says lindsey please come home she described her husband of a man of logic of a scientific mind does not believe in anything supernatural or otherworldly but the way that he was talking really freaked her out so she goes okay i'll leave work i can come home She's working in Eastern New York, just over the Massachusetts-New York state line, but they lived in Western Mass, so it took her about a half an hour to get home from when the call first came in.

Where they live is actually pretty rural.

It's down a dirt road into some woods where the Appalachian Mountains crawl into some hills in the back.

we're a national news story and we are halloween costume worthy but we still can't keep the doors that's what

i'm saying like how do you how do you fail that hard you were given a hail mary and you you fumbled like you just fumbled the bag you how many lesbian bars in western massachusetts go viral

Not many.

How do you not submit for Bar Rescue and at least go on TV?

I-

Name a fun fact about you, Bubbles the Clown.

Started the COVID conscious lesbian bar in Western Massachusetts.

Yeah.

So for the first year before we even officially announced that we were going to run, we decided that the only way to really have a grassroots people-led campaign was to travel around the state from the western part of the state all the way out Pittsfield to Berkshires, Chicopee, Springfield, Worcester, all the way down south to Fall River, New Bedford, the Cape and the Islands, everything in between, you know, my community of Roxbury, Massachusetts, and really talk to people.

What did you talk about when you visited Springfield, Worcester, the western part of the state? What issues did western Massachusetts residents bring to you?

Well, one of the first things we did, I know out in Pittsfield, we visited a place called The Hot Plate.

And it's a brewery coffee shop.

Instead, they name call.

I want to shift to one of the biggest challenges in the valley right now and would love your take on it.

If you were elected governor, we're having in western Massachusetts a huge issue with water resources, watershed communities in the Quabbin.

feel resources are being pulled from them and they're going to Eastern Mass in Boston.

WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

A bar in western Massachusetts that went viral for mask mandates is now closing its doors.

In Greenfield,

it appears the lesbian bar that made waves on social media for still having mask mandates a year after the COVID pandemic died down has just announced it is shutting down effective immediately.

Jim McKay, WBZ, Boston's News Radio.

And scientific experts are buzzing in

Western Mass.

Scientists at UMass Amherst developed an AI tool that monitors bee populations by listening to their buzzing.

They managed to successfully shut it down.

The posting, reading Last Ditch, also known as the COVID-conscious Western Massachusetts lesbian bar, closing effective immediately.

And...

Anyway, that's what happens.

So, and I want to go back to that So briefly, I want to really quickly go back to what we were just talking about with like the humor moments, because I just wanted to share really quickly that one thing that I laughed at, which I don't.

And I think this this exemplifies the differences between the coasts in terms of how people and also in Western Massachusetts.

Now, I think Boston would have been a different experience.

But when they at the end and again, this is like spoilers alert galore.

They call it the down Easter and it's been good.

Massachusetts is studying a plan to go from Boston into Western Massachusetts.

And trust me, if you're from the Bay state, that's a big deal.

Even out here in Iowa, there's been on again, off again, interest in creating a passenger run from Des Moines to Chicago.

Danvers police say the driver was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay.

Right now the Massachusetts National Guard has been activated and deployed to Western Mass to fight a raging wildfire there.

The wildfire started in New York on Sunday and crossed the border into Williamstown yesterday.

So far the fire has grown to nearly 200 acres.

And like I was telling Lauren before y'all got on, we have such, we have a decent deer population.

I think in Western Massachusetts, um, But where I live is so rural and there's so much space for the deer to go.

I could sit in Vermont or Massachusetts or in Hampshire, New York for a week and see nothing.

Or see a doe and I didn't get a lottery doe tag in my zone and I can't shoot it.